Nonparametric Inference: Methods and Applications
A special issue of Stats (ISSN 2571-905X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 1067
Editor
Interests: multivariate analysis; nonparametric statistics; permutation tests; composite indicators
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is dedicated to nonparametric statistical methods. It will cover topics concerning both new methodological proposals or theoretical studies about the properties of existing methods, as well as the applications of methods previously proposed in the literature. The applications can concern all empirical sciences, such as biosciences, chemistry, medicine, engineering, computer science, psychology, economics, business, sociology, and many others.
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts that concern theoretical or applied works, provided that they deal with methods of estimation, hypothesis testing, classification, or forecasting that follow a distribution-free approach. The following is a non exhaustive list of such methods:
- Rank tests;
- Permutation tests;
- Bootstraps;
- Jacknifes;
- Nonparametric estimations;
- Resampling methods;
- Lack-of-fit tests;
- Nonparametric models;
- Multivariate analyses;
- Dimension reduction and variable selection;
- Stochastic processes;
- Sample surveys;
- Time series analyses;
- Longitudinal and functional data analyses;
- Nonparametric Bayesian methods;
- Semiparametric models and methods;
- Statistical methods for imaging and tomography;
- Computational statistics;
- Machine learning.
Dr. Stefano Bonnini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nonparametric statistical methods
- distribution-free approach
- hypothesis testing
- resampling methods
- machine learning
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